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La CIEA adhère à l'ACPPU La College Institute Educators' Association of BC, un syndicat provincial représentant les professeurs et le personnel des collèges universitaires, des collèges communautaires et des instituts de Colombie-Britannique a été admise au sein de l'ACPPU lors […]

Il s'est écoulé onze ans depuis l'assassinat de quatorze jeunes canadiennes. Le 6 décembre 1989, un tireur fou est entré dans des classes de l'École Polytechnique de l'Université de Montréal, a ordonné aux hommes de sortir et a fait feu, […]

The College Institute Educators' Association of BC, a provincial union representing faculty and staff at British Columbia's university-colleges, community colleges and institutes, was welcomed into CAUT membership at CAUT's November Council meeting. "We are delighted to formalize CAUT's longstanding relationship […]

Delegates to CAUT's 49th Council meeting in November voted overwhelmingly to adopt a policy statement asserting the right of all academic staff to fair and equitable treatment regardless of their employment status. Titled, Fairness for Contract Academic Staff, the policy […]

Now, graduate students and part-time academic staff members can join CAUT as individual associate members at reduced rates. Council delegates set the graduate student rate at $25 and the rate for part-time academic staff members at $29.40 -- the same […]

CAUT Council has approved new policy statements on academic appointments and discipline, as well as four new model clauses. The new appointments policy expressed concern about the casualization of academic work and the denial of appropriate terms and conditions of […]

Susan Sherwin, a pioneer for the study of women's health, has been awarded CAUT's Sarah Shorten Award for 2000. Lauded as a "trail blazer" and a "fearless, deeply-committed feminist" Dr. Sherwin was presented with the 10th annual award during a […]

From the École Polytechnique shooting came a determination to understand and change a society that often ignored such violence. It has been 11 years since the massacre of 14 young Canadian women. On Dec. 6, 1989, a killer walked into […]

One of the legacies of the Montreal massacre in 1989 was Canada's new gun control law. The students, faculty and administration of École Polytechnique, the families of the victims, and groups from across the country joined to advocate for stricter […]

On Nov. 8 sessional lecturers at the University of Quebec at Trois-Rivières resumed their strike after eight months of failed talks and suspended job action. In January 2000 after almost a year of negotiations the lecturers voted 95 per cent […]

Former Industry Minister John Manley says the biggest challenge now facing the federal government is how to rebuild a "crumbling" post-secondary education system. In an interview with the editorial board of the Ottawa Citizen just before the federal election, Manley […]

Faculty and librarians were back on the job at Memorial University on Nov. 14 after a two-week strike. After an all night session that began on Nov. 10 the two negotiating teams reached agreement on several key issues with the […]